where form meets function

Every StackOverflow user with a reputation of 200 of more has the opportunity to elect a new moderator. The list of candidates looks as if it was chosen from users with high reputation. The voting page says to vote based on what kind of moderator you’d think they’d be, based on their profile page. I [...]

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Download the trendy gem, or visit the github for trendy. — I’ve made another gem! It’s called Trendy, and it is a simple wrapper for the Twitter Search API, but the only the part of it that concerns trending topics. I’ve initially made it pretty simple, so I was able to learn a lot about [...]

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I’ve done some shuffling around with my online properties recently. I created a front page for paulfedory.com.  It’s quite simple, and includes links to all the major online profiles that I care about.  I think it’s important to take control of what’s being said about you on the web, and by providing links to my [...]

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Download the gem here (gemcutter.org) Visit the GitHub source here (github.com) — I’ve finally created a gem for Ruby on Rails apps. It’s called YamlSeeder, and its at version 0.0.1, naturally. YamlSeeder takes foxy-fixture-like YAML files and seeds them into your Rails app, using ActiveRecord. Why I Made It Originally, I stored all my seed [...]

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I love Ruby on Rails, it’s so cool.  It’s elegant, and it’s so easy to get started creating a functional website.  However, the development of the framework moves far too fast.  As a result, documentation become out-of-date fast.  This makes it incredibly hard to follow any sort of tutorial, blog post, or advice given in [...]

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I still have my first iPod.  It’s a 4th generation, black and white, 20GB ipod.  I first got it in December 2004, and it’s served me faithfully since then.  And it’s now slowly dying. I’ve googled around for some suggestions about what to do.  I found the “iPod Death Clock” which tells you how long [...]

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I’ve decided I miss blogging.  I know, it’s weird.  How can someone miss blogging?  I’m inspired, in large part, by my friend Christine and my other daily reads like Coding Horror and CodeSqueeze.  I’ve blogged before; this isn’t a new arena for me.  Before, I blogged semi-anonymously at wogger.com, which is now retired.  This time, [...]

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